Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

Good advice is rarer than rubies.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.